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Il est devenu **général**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8373503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8373503) [\#11840187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11840187)) - Long live **General** Lafayette!” Vive le **général** Lafayette! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20792) - Yet these heartless **generals** take little notice of what we tell them. Or, ces **généraux** impitoyables n'en ont cure. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1104561) - Other Brigadier-**Generals** Autres **généraux** de brigade ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1728828) - Note by the Secretary-**General** Note du Secrétaire **général** ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 16862188) ## je Used about 712 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 709). - I think I understand the **general** idea. **Je** crois que je comprends l'idée globale. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and genes1s · checked, community translation · [\#6809005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6809005) [\#13338033](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13338033)) - I believe it is essential for civil servants to be accountable to the **general** public. **Je** pense qu'il est fondamental que les fonctionnaires soient responsables devant les citoyens. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1377350) - I have no doubt that the people of Burma would then overcome the power of the **generals**. Si c'était le cas, **je** suis persuadée que le peuple de Birmanie parviendrait à se soulever contre la junte au pouvoir. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1104630) - I therefore agree with the statement that in the current circumstances, the **general** principle for European financing is to follow an ethos of budgetary austerity. **Je** pars donc du principe que, dans les circonstances actuelles, le financement européen doit répondre à une éthique d'austérité budgétaire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1515683) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - They are trying to discredit me in the eyes of the **general** public. Ils essayent de me discréditer aux yeux du grand public. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#13816234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13816234) [\#8670522](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8670522)) - Ambiguous phrases in **general** lead to amusing interpretations. Les phrases ambiguës donnent souvent lieu à d'amusantes interprétations. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Archibald · checked, community translation · [\#1225278](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1225278) [\#443950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/443950)) - Yanni learned **general** Berber. Yanni a appris un tamazight de base. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9354318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9354318) [\#11840189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11840189)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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